Obituaries

About the Database of Obituaries

This database lists obituaries of Fellows, Associates and Honorary Members of the RAS from the 1820s onwards. The obituaries were published in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (MNRAS), Memoirs of the RAS, Quarterly Journal of the Royal Astronomical Society (QJRAS) and Astronomy and Geophysics (A&G). Links to obituaries published elsewhere are also provided where possible (for an explanatory list of abbreviated journal titles, see here). This listing of the historical membership of the Royal Astronomical Society was originally compiled by Anthony J. Kinder, and digitised in 2008 by Ian Ridpath.

This resource has made use of the Astrophysics Data System (ADS)

NameBornDiedElectedMembership status
Harold William ActonFellow
Robert Meldrum StewartFellow
Thomas Hugh CloseFellow
Charles James WestlandFellow
Solon Irving BaileyAssociate
Marie Paul Auguste Charles FabryAssociate
George Ridsdale GoldsbroughFellow
Frederick Charles LeonardFellow
Mary Adela BlaggFellow
Fiammetta Wilson [née Worthington]Fellow
Bt Park GoffFellow
Margaret Theodora MeyerFellow
Rev. Peter David MorseFellow
Francisca HerschelFellow
Gertrude LongbottomFellow
Sallie Duffield Proctor-SmythFellow
Svante Elis StrömgrenAssociate
James HartnessFellow
Dr Reginald Lawson WaterfieldFellow
Annie Scott Dill Maunder [née Russell]Fellow
Edward Lindsay InceFellow
Sir Charles Algernon ParsonsFellow
Joan George Erardus Gijsbertus VoûteFellow
Giovanni CeloriaAssociate
Charles Greeley AbbotAssociate
Pierre Henri PuiseuxAssociate
William WilsonFellow
Charles John Philip CaveFellow
Walter George BellFellow
Alfred HolnessFellow
Frederick Hanley SearesAssociate
Harlow ShapleyAssociate
Godfrey Harold HardyFellow
Rev. Frederick Clare LeesFellow
Hector Munro MacdonaldFellow
William John RobertsFellow
Charles Frederick ButterworthFellow
Henry Hayden WatersFellow
John Edensor LittlewoodFellow
Dr William Evan McFarlaneFellow
Henry Bedingfield GoodwinFellow
Theralandoor Panchapagesa BhaskaranFellow
Sir Horace LambFellow
Sidney Batt MatteyFellow
Walter Robert StokesFellow
Rev. Walter A. MátosFellow
Edward PrenticeFellow
Sir Henry Percy DouglasFellow
Rev. Harold PainFellow
Sir William Napier ShawFellow
Henry Reginald FryFellow
Harry Hemley PlaskettFellow
Ignazio Nicolas DracopoliFellow
Sir Charles Galton DarwinFellow
Archibald William Tindall-LucasFellow
Edwin Powell HubbleFellow, later Associate
John Stanley PlaskettFellow
Leslie John ComrieFellow
Baron Robert John Strutt (Rayleigh)Fellow
Ralph Emerson DeLuryFellow
Baron Robert John Rayleigh (Strutt)Fellow
John Johnston RossFellow
Clement Osborn BartrumFellow
Sidney Bertram GaythorpeFellow
James Garton BowerFellow
Willem Jacob LuytenFellow
Harold William NewtonFellow
William PorthouseFellow
Joseph ProudmanFellow
Gerald MertonFellow
Thomas AllisonFellow
Arthur William LongFellow
Rev. George Stewart HitchcockFellow
Arthur Everard LevinFellow
William Cunliffe MargerisonFellow
Rev. James Peter RowlandFellow
Thomas Luther EvansFellow
Cmdr John Archibald Rupert-JonesFellow
John Stefanos ParaskevopoulosFellow
Hester Periam HawkinsFellow
George MorhamFellow
Charles Bousfield ShawFellow
Edward Arthur MilneFellow
Arthur BurnetFellow
Thomas HumphriesFellow
Robert StoneleyFellow
Donald Luther EdwardsFellow
Georges LecointeAssociate
Ejnar HertzsprungAssociate
Antonio AbettiAssociate
Dr Edward Osborne FountainFellow
Heber Doust CurtisAssociate
William Michael Herbert GreavesFellow
Capt. Dudley Sydney Ashworth CosbyFellow
Christopher Clive Langton GregoryFellow
Ernest William Frown KeevilFellow
Jan, Jr WoltjerFellow
William John ThorrowgoodFellow
William SmalleyFellow
Herbert DingleFellow